"A Surge Forward on Marriage Equality":This editorial will appear in Friday's edition of The New York Times.Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman"States are now targets of 'Citizens United'": Byron Tau of Politico.com has this report today.Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman"5 Law Blogs To Add To Your Daily Routine": Ama Sarfo of Law360.com tonight has this article (subscription required for full access), which includes "How Appealing" as first on its list of five law blogs to read on a daily basis.Posted at 11:09 PM by Howard Bashman"Harper alleges Supreme Court Chief Justice broke key rule with phone call": Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has this news update.

"Mary Yu becomes first Asian American, first gay on State Supreme Court": SeattlePI.com has this report.Posted at 08:20 PM by Howard Bashman"Senate Confirms Nine Judges This Week": Todd Ruger has this post today at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times."Posted at 06:12 PM by Howard Bashman"Judges seem open to second-guessing FERC in N.Y. pipeline case": Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report.

"Commentary: From the bench to the podium." Lyle Denniston has this post today at "SCOTUSblog."Posted at 03:09 PM by Howard Bashman"Appeals Court: Book Publisher Must Face Self-Dealing Lawsuit; Suing romance novelists believe that Harlequin used foreign subsidiaries to create artificially low net receipts on eBooks." Eriq Gardner has this post today at the "Hollywood, Esq." blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.Posted at 03:07 PM by Howard Bashman"Legal Watchers Anticipate Supreme Court Decision On Vanderbilt Casino": Interlochen (Mich.) Public Radio has this report today (via "Turtle Talk").Posted at 03:04 PM by Howard BashmanAccess online the audio of today's Sixth Circuit oral argument in Sarah Jones v. Dirty World Entertainment et al., No. 13-5946: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has posted online today's oral argument of this case at this link (embedded audio).

This blog's related posts from earlier today can be accessed here and here.

"Lawsuit seeks access to more secret court opinions": The Associated Press has this report.Posted at 02:44 PM by Howard Bashman"The Legal Foundation of NSA Surveillance on Americans: What the final clause of the Fourth Amendment means in interpreting the government's rights." Conor Friedersdorf has this essay online today at The Atlantic.Posted at 01:56 PM by Howard Bashman"Oklahoma execution nightmare shines light on California policies": Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

"Gossip website operator confident 'we just won'": Amber Hunt of The Cincinnati Enquirer has this news update.Posted at 01:18 PM by Howard Bashman"Roy Englert on the Oklahoma executions": Will Baude has this post today at "The Volokh Conspiracy."

You can access the video live, online via this link. According to the event announcement emailed to me yesterday, "The panel will be moderated by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and feature Erin Murphy, who recently argued and won McCutcheon v. FEC, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law, and CAC's Elizabeth Wydra."Posted at 09:29 AM by Howard Bashman

"The Supreme Court Will Never Kill the Death Penalty, Even With Botched Executions; Capital punishment is constitutional, but the way it's performed may never be; Only the public can shut down the machinery of death -- if it sees it killing": Mike Sacks has this essay online today at The Daily Beast.